. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . y of whose gallantry FortHarrison was afterwards named FortBurnham. We lost many others ofour higher field officers, so that beforethe battle was ended majors werein command of brigades, and cap-tains of regiments. Every man wasa hero on that day. Three times our line was chargedby the rebel North Carolina troopswith the most persevering energy. But our troops held their intrenchments and in comparativeshelter swept the field. The North Carolina division was substantiallydestroyed. Nineteen battle-flag
. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . y of whose gallantry FortHarrison was afterwards named FortBurnham. We lost many others ofour higher field officers, so that beforethe battle was ended majors werein command of brigades, and cap-tains of regiments. Every man wasa hero on that day. Three times our line was chargedby the rebel North Carolina troopswith the most persevering energy. But our troops held their intrenchments and in comparativeshelter swept the field. The North Carolina division was substantiallydestroyed. Nineteen battle-flags and several hundred prisoners werecaptured. The day was a very rainy one, but the rebels kept upthe attack until nearly night, when they withdrew. No attack wasever afterwards made on that line, but we occupied it from thattime until our negro troops marched from it to take possession ofRichmond. Further up to our right about a mile from our line I bivouackedwith my staff and some dozen orderlies in a grove of stunted headquarters guard had not come from Bermuda with me, and I. Gen. Hiram Buknham. 738 BUTLERS BOOK. saw no necessity for detailing from the line any of my tired troops tomake a guard. The night was an exceedingly dark one. About nine oclock General Weitzels provost marshal came up toheadquarters, where he naturally supposed there would be a suffi-cient guard, and turned over to my headquarters provost marshalsome three hundred prisoners, took his receipt and rode back to hisown camp, some three miles to the left, and I found myself in thissingular situation — with fifteen or twenty of my staff and orderlies,having in charge that large number of prisoners on a very darknight. I directed my orderlies, from a quantity of wood that had fortu-nately been cut and left there, to instruct the prisoners to build firesto dry themselves, and as our supply wagon was very well filled, theprisoners were seated upon the ground and served with rations,which in the war
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